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Aberdeen, Benedictine Monastery
Non Antiquity (Period Unknown)
Site Name Aberdeen, Benedictine Monastery
Classification Non Antiquity (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 20069
Site Number NJ90NW 164
NGR NJ 94 06
NGR Description NJ c. 94 06
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20069
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Aberdeen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ90NW 164 c. 94 06.
The Benedictine abbey and convent 'de Aberdona' is mentioned in a bull of Pope Gregory IX, dated 3 April 1231. This is a mistranscription, the abbey in question being Abingdon.
A Theiner (ed.) 1864; I B Cowan and D E Easson 1976.
